Monday, June 27, 2005
Adventure 27: 27th June 2005
"Yeah but where's me bloody chair ???"...yup it's that time again.. not only have I been restructured, yet again - frankly that'd be enough for anyone, no no, we've moved too.
I'm now on the ground floor, block A with a window right behind me. The view is something to behold, a concrete pillar and a little bit of grass ! Not for me the delights of a view straight in to the canteen (there was a reason I went home for lunch!), nope just a crappy desk to try and fit my hordes of technological gadgets and gizmo's on.
Friday 24th June 2005: 20:00:
Just a quick note to finish off Friday, Mandy informs me that Jack needs a Tudor house built, this weekend. Hmmm 48 hours, still Rome wasn't built in a day.
Saturday 25th June 2005: 09:00:
Packing up the car so Mandy can take Jack to a car boot sale and earn us some serious cash from our junk. I've been watching the lunctime edition of "Car Booty" where they always seem to make in excess of £200 - £300, so hopes are high.
10:00:
Drop Ryan off at stage school and then have dilemma...do I go to cashbase and buy materials for Jacks house, or go home and chill out for a couple of hours....hmm tough call.
Back home, watching something on the telly, did some tidying and the washing up, the tennis will be on in a bit, so I check my mail and my downloads, wander in to the garage, wander out of the garage and discover that I'm tinsy winsy bit bored....
12:00: Pick Ryan up and we then wiz to cashbase for some MDF for the house that Jack didn't build.
12:20: Make Lunch
12:40: Set to work on the house...Basically a Tudor house I discover is two boxes on top of each other, the top box being a bit larger than the bottom one...easy enough...
16:00: Made the two boxes, after breathing in lots of MDF fibres, I'm feeling fairly pleased with myself, if not a little bit weasy.
16:30: Mandy and POD are home looking knackered. I helpfully and expentantly ask, "so how much did you make ?", "well, not bad, about £40", hiding my disappointment at the prospect of having to go back to work on Monday, I smile and say "pretty good", should keep us in milk and petrol for about a day....
16:45: I show Mandy the two boxes that is the Tudor mansion and she's impressed, which is good, she did slide in there with "I was hoping you'd cut some windows and a door...", but quickly follows that with "I'm sure we could paint them on..."
Sunday 26th June 2005 10:00:
I do some browsing of the web, and discover that Tudor houses aren't square !!!
Luckily the bottom of the house is only held together with panel pins so I quickly half the length of the side panels. Unluckily, I zealously glued the top box together with "No More Plaster" and it's set and virtually unmoveable. I prise it all apart with a screwdriver, so some more side panels to make then...!
12:00: Two hours on and it's made, the roof is just two bits of MDF nailed together at right angles to each other and this sits quite nicely on top of the top box giving a proper roof effect.
Mandy is again impressed, and Jack is fairly impressed too (not easy to do that, whilst still watching the telly).
16:00: Off over to Mandy's Mum and Dad's, Dave 'Spitfire' and Olly 'Feedingofthefivethousandwasmyidea' are having a housewarming barbeque, it would make sense then to put the bbq inside me thinks !
16:30: We're about to go off and play cricket, so I ask Mandy if she knows where my brand new 20 billion mega pixel, zoom in zoom out, camera is, "No, I don't remember taking it out of the car", so I send Ryan off to the car to try and locate it. He comes back empty handed, well not strictly empty handed, he has brough the empty camcorder bag back! I say to Mandy again about it, "well I don't remember taking it out of the car and I've looked in here, it must be home", funny coz I distinctly remember putting it in the boot of the car, but I accept her version of events since mine could have been last week.
16:35: Cricket is in full swing, well there's a lot of swinging and not much in the way of cricket going on but still. The Sunbathers are sunbathing, miserable lot, but we've stil got enough for 9 a side which is good enough. I'm out square cutting as per usual, and my teams score is 53 all out.
Dave's team is next in and they rattle up 58 all out so they're the winners.
18:00: Back to Olly's for the BBQ, all I can say is Dave will be eating BBQ left overs for some weeks !!!
Monday: 08:40:
Yup it takes me 10 more minutes to walk to my desk than before. I must bring that up as a "my contribution", I could save the company 10's of pounds. I'm met with my crate filled to overflowing (so much so I had to borrow a bit of space from Brentboy). Fortunately the "removals" people have moved my screen (20" flatpanel) and my PC and plugged it all in, which was nice of them. Well it would have been nicer if they'd actually plugged the right screen keyboard and mouse into the right PC but hey I'm just being picky.
09:00: Unable to contain my excitement or last nights dinner I head for the loo, that's about as graphic as I'm going to get so don't be too scared to read on. Needless to say when planning a move of any type 'movee comfort' is a top priority. Always pack the kettle and toilet roll last etc etc. So imagine my horror to discover there's no loo paper !!!! I would say "ARSE!" but that would just be too ironic.
09:10: I shuffle myself round to the next cubicle, having first checked that no one else was in the toilets, and manage to find some paper, thank god for that eh ?
Then I come out and wash my hands, then to dry them, ah, no paper towels and the hand dryer looks ready to electrocute some poor innocent guy who's just washed his hands and can't find any paper towels to dry them....
09:40: My unpack is in full swing, there are far too many power leads and cables generally, but they've given me 8 power sockets to plug it all in to.
09:50: More or less finished now, and I've only had two fags....
10:00: I noticed some time ago that my beloved is missing. My comfy chair with it's tilt and swivel and extra padding has vanished into the ether, even though I labelled it with about 20 labels...not good....
11:00: Dierdre Largebottom, has responded to my plea for help (my chair) by bringing down a similar one. She says that she wasn't sure what I meant by cream so she's brought down a biege one instead, good thinking. Still this chair isn't bad, got quite a bit of padding and it's got a tilt which was the main thing for me. I can't put my feet up and have a snooze in the afternoon's without a tilt mechanism.....
12:30: Lunch ! - A buffet lunch has been provided, because we all turned up in a different location, wahay !, I pass and go home for my bacon sandwich.
13:30: Centre of bleeding Excellence !!!?? I don't know what the excellence bit refers to but I've just overheard Mike Takanap, telling Judy Knockerty, how installing applications that talk to a central server is the best bandwidth friendly way of using the said application..nnooooooo, no, I think you'll find using an application that's more bandwidth friendly period would be the best route....
13:40: I've just been acosted by this really old geezer, could be my grandfather, turns out he's drawing charactures of everyone. According to the rulez of characatures you can change the colour of someone's hair then, either that or he only had a black pen !!....
I'm now on the ground floor, block A with a window right behind me. The view is something to behold, a concrete pillar and a little bit of grass ! Not for me the delights of a view straight in to the canteen (there was a reason I went home for lunch!), nope just a crappy desk to try and fit my hordes of technological gadgets and gizmo's on.
Friday 24th June 2005: 20:00:
Just a quick note to finish off Friday, Mandy informs me that Jack needs a Tudor house built, this weekend. Hmmm 48 hours, still Rome wasn't built in a day.
Saturday 25th June 2005: 09:00:
Packing up the car so Mandy can take Jack to a car boot sale and earn us some serious cash from our junk. I've been watching the lunctime edition of "Car Booty" where they always seem to make in excess of £200 - £300, so hopes are high.
10:00:
Drop Ryan off at stage school and then have dilemma...do I go to cashbase and buy materials for Jacks house, or go home and chill out for a couple of hours....hmm tough call.
Back home, watching something on the telly, did some tidying and the washing up, the tennis will be on in a bit, so I check my mail and my downloads, wander in to the garage, wander out of the garage and discover that I'm tinsy winsy bit bored....
12:00: Pick Ryan up and we then wiz to cashbase for some MDF for the house that Jack didn't build.
12:20: Make Lunch
12:40: Set to work on the house...Basically a Tudor house I discover is two boxes on top of each other, the top box being a bit larger than the bottom one...easy enough...
16:00: Made the two boxes, after breathing in lots of MDF fibres, I'm feeling fairly pleased with myself, if not a little bit weasy.
16:30: Mandy and POD are home looking knackered. I helpfully and expentantly ask, "so how much did you make ?", "well, not bad, about £40", hiding my disappointment at the prospect of having to go back to work on Monday, I smile and say "pretty good", should keep us in milk and petrol for about a day....
16:45: I show Mandy the two boxes that is the Tudor mansion and she's impressed, which is good, she did slide in there with "I was hoping you'd cut some windows and a door...", but quickly follows that with "I'm sure we could paint them on..."
Sunday 26th June 2005 10:00:
I do some browsing of the web, and discover that Tudor houses aren't square !!!
Luckily the bottom of the house is only held together with panel pins so I quickly half the length of the side panels. Unluckily, I zealously glued the top box together with "No More Plaster" and it's set and virtually unmoveable. I prise it all apart with a screwdriver, so some more side panels to make then...!
12:00: Two hours on and it's made, the roof is just two bits of MDF nailed together at right angles to each other and this sits quite nicely on top of the top box giving a proper roof effect.
Mandy is again impressed, and Jack is fairly impressed too (not easy to do that, whilst still watching the telly).
16:00: Off over to Mandy's Mum and Dad's, Dave 'Spitfire' and Olly 'Feedingofthefivethousandwasmyidea' are having a housewarming barbeque, it would make sense then to put the bbq inside me thinks !
16:30: We're about to go off and play cricket, so I ask Mandy if she knows where my brand new 20 billion mega pixel, zoom in zoom out, camera is, "No, I don't remember taking it out of the car", so I send Ryan off to the car to try and locate it. He comes back empty handed, well not strictly empty handed, he has brough the empty camcorder bag back! I say to Mandy again about it, "well I don't remember taking it out of the car and I've looked in here, it must be home", funny coz I distinctly remember putting it in the boot of the car, but I accept her version of events since mine could have been last week.
16:35: Cricket is in full swing, well there's a lot of swinging and not much in the way of cricket going on but still. The Sunbathers are sunbathing, miserable lot, but we've stil got enough for 9 a side which is good enough. I'm out square cutting as per usual, and my teams score is 53 all out.
Dave's team is next in and they rattle up 58 all out so they're the winners.
18:00: Back to Olly's for the BBQ, all I can say is Dave will be eating BBQ left overs for some weeks !!!
Monday: 08:40:
Yup it takes me 10 more minutes to walk to my desk than before. I must bring that up as a "my contribution", I could save the company 10's of pounds. I'm met with my crate filled to overflowing (so much so I had to borrow a bit of space from Brentboy). Fortunately the "removals" people have moved my screen (20" flatpanel) and my PC and plugged it all in, which was nice of them. Well it would have been nicer if they'd actually plugged the right screen keyboard and mouse into the right PC but hey I'm just being picky.
09:00: Unable to contain my excitement or last nights dinner I head for the loo, that's about as graphic as I'm going to get so don't be too scared to read on. Needless to say when planning a move of any type 'movee comfort' is a top priority. Always pack the kettle and toilet roll last etc etc. So imagine my horror to discover there's no loo paper !!!! I would say "ARSE!" but that would just be too ironic.
09:10: I shuffle myself round to the next cubicle, having first checked that no one else was in the toilets, and manage to find some paper, thank god for that eh ?
Then I come out and wash my hands, then to dry them, ah, no paper towels and the hand dryer looks ready to electrocute some poor innocent guy who's just washed his hands and can't find any paper towels to dry them....
09:40: My unpack is in full swing, there are far too many power leads and cables generally, but they've given me 8 power sockets to plug it all in to.
09:50: More or less finished now, and I've only had two fags....
10:00: I noticed some time ago that my beloved is missing. My comfy chair with it's tilt and swivel and extra padding has vanished into the ether, even though I labelled it with about 20 labels...not good....
11:00: Dierdre Largebottom, has responded to my plea for help (my chair) by bringing down a similar one. She says that she wasn't sure what I meant by cream so she's brought down a biege one instead, good thinking. Still this chair isn't bad, got quite a bit of padding and it's got a tilt which was the main thing for me. I can't put my feet up and have a snooze in the afternoon's without a tilt mechanism.....
12:30: Lunch ! - A buffet lunch has been provided, because we all turned up in a different location, wahay !, I pass and go home for my bacon sandwich.
13:30: Centre of bleeding Excellence !!!?? I don't know what the excellence bit refers to but I've just overheard Mike Takanap, telling Judy Knockerty, how installing applications that talk to a central server is the best bandwidth friendly way of using the said application..nnooooooo, no, I think you'll find using an application that's more bandwidth friendly period would be the best route....
13:40: I've just been acosted by this really old geezer, could be my grandfather, turns out he's drawing charactures of everyone. According to the rulez of characatures you can change the colour of someone's hair then, either that or he only had a black pen !!....
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